Precarious Hope

Author : Ayse Parla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1503608107

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Precarious Hope by Ayse Parla Pdf

There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet access to citizenship remains dependent on the whims of those in power. Through vivid accounts of encounters with the police and state bureaucracy, of nostalgic memories of home and aspirations for a more secure life in Turkey, Precarious Hope explores the tensions between ethnic privilege and economic vulnerability and rethinks the limits of migrant belonging among those for whom it is intimated and promised--but never guaranteed. In contrast to the typical focus on despair, Ayşe Parla studies the hopefulness of migrants. Turkish immigration policies have worked in lockstep with national aspirations for ethnic, religious, and ideological conformity, offering Bulgaristanlı migrants an advantage over others. Their hope is the product of privilege and an act of dignity and perseverance. It is also a tool of the state, reproducing a migration regime that categorizes some as desirable and others as foreign and dispensable. Through the experiences of the Bulgaristanlı, Precarious Hope speaks to the global predicament in which increasing numbers of people are forced to manage both cultivation of hope and relentless anxiety within structures of inequality.

Author : Shahram Khosravi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780812248876

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Precarious Lives by Shahram Khosravi Pdf

Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.

Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377245

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Precarious Japan by Anne Allison Pdf

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.

Author : Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479889389

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Japan by Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison Pdf

"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Author : Maria Stehle,Beverly Weber
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810142138

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Precarious Intimacies by Maria Stehle,Beverly Weber Pdf

Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value love, touch, and care while challenging the racialized and gendered politics in which they are embedded. Twenty-first-century Europe is undergoing dramatic political and economic transformations that produce new forms of transnational contact as well as new regimes of exclusion and economic precarity. These political and economic shifts both circumscribe and enable new possibilities for intimacy. Many European films of the last two decades depict experiences of political and economic vulnerability in narratives of precarious intimacies. In these films, stories of intimacy, sex, love, and friendship are embedded in violence and exclusion, but, as Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber show, the politics of touch and connection also offers avenues to theorize forms of attention and affection that challenge exclusive notions of race, citizenship, and belonging. Precarious Intimacies examines the aesthetic strategies that respond to this tension and proposes a politics of interpretation that identifies the potential and possibility of intimacy.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763038

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Precarious Life by Judith Butler Pdf

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

Author : Andrea Elliott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812986969

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Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

Author : Betty Bastien,Jürgen W. Kremer
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9781552381090

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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing by Betty Bastien,Jürgen W. Kremer Pdf

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.

Author : Stock, Inka
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529201970

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Time, Migration and Forced Immobility by Stock, Inka Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book is concerned with the effects of migration policy-making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and challenges current migration politics to consider alternative ways of looking at the modern migratory phenomenon. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Morocco with migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, the author considers current migration dynamics from the perspectives of migrants themselves to examine the long-term social effects of immobility experienced by migrants whom get stuck in ‘transit’ countries. This book is an invaluable learning resource for those wishing to understand the social and political processes that migration policies lead to, particularly in countries in the Global South.

Author : Shelley Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192566003

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Living Wage by Shelley Marshall Pdf

This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and development, exploring why people become trapped in precarious work. The accounts describe the impact of supply chain governance, trade agreements, internal and between-country migration, legal factors, as well as the socio-economic characteristics and outlooks of the workers. In a unique approach, the chapters describe existing labour regulation measures that have succeeded, but which have to date attracted little scholarly attention. Building on these existing innovations, the book proposes a new international labour law which would incrementally increase the wages of the poor and regulate precarious work in global supply chains.

Author : Albena Azmanova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231530606

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Capitalism on Edge by Albena Azmanova Pdf

The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism’s terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction. Azmanova’s new critique of capitalism focuses on the competitive pursuit of profit rather than on forms of ownership and patterns of wealth distribution. She contends that neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form—precarity capitalism—marked by the emergence of a precarious multitude. Widespread economic insecurity ails the 99 percent across differences in income, education, and professional occupation; it is the underlying cause of such diverse hardships as work-related stress and chronic unemployment. In response, Azmanova calls for forging a broad alliance of strange bedfellows whose discontent would challenge not only capitalism’s unfair outcomes but also the drive for profit at its core. To achieve this synthesis, progressive forces need to go beyond the old ideological certitudes of, on the left, fighting inequality and, on the right, increasing competition. Azmanova details reforms that would enable a dramatic transformation of the current system without a revolutionary break. An iconoclastic critique of left orthodoxy, Capitalism on Edge confronts the intellectual and political impasses of our time to discern a new path of emancipation.

Author : Munira Premji
Publisher : Mawenzi House Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1774150050

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Choosing Hope by Munira Premji Pdf

Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how the author battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Stage 3 Multiple Myeloma, and Stage 3 Breast Cancer within a period of five years. It is an inspirational story about resilience and hope in the face of overwhelming odds in the face of death. The book is written as a series of anecdotes, based on entries from a blog the author started shortly her first diagnosis, when her focus was simply on surviving. The blog was her way of exploring and sharing what was happening to her in real time; it describes moments of utter darkness and light, of hopelessness and hope, of intense pain and then relief. It provided a venue for the author-patient to connect with other people, and to support other individuals who were diagnosed with cancer. Choosing Hope captures the psychological, physical, and emotional impacts of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. It is easy to read and anecdotal in style, moving and yet full of the humour that helped the author to get through. This book will appeal to recently diagnosed cancer patients and survivors and their families, as well as caregivers, and to others facing health challenges.

Author : Benjamin Junge,Sean T. Mitchell,Alvaro Jarrin,Lucia Cantero
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978825673

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Precarious Democracy by Benjamin Junge,Sean T. Mitchell,Alvaro Jarrin,Lucia Cantero Pdf

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.

Author : Edward Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00029456

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Klagen oder Nachtgedanken über Leben, Tod und Unsterblichkeit by Edward Young Pdf

Author : Michael J. Fox
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250265623

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No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges. In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses. Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.” Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.